Christel Yardley/Stuff Shirley Wetiford was among four Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps nurses to be deployed to Malaya in 1961. Shirley Wetiford looks lovingly at the military service medals on her blazer. She had the coat out ready for the annual RSA Poppy Appeal on Friday, April 16, where she was with other returned service members stationed outside a supermarket in Cambridge. The theme for this year’s appeal was “Service and Sacrifice” and “saluting women and the military”. Lance Corporal Shirley Churcher [her maiden name], Service No 38735, served in the Royal New Zealand Nursing Corps from 1959 to 1962, including 12 months in the Malayan Emergency in 1961.